There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
NOVALISGenius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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